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And yet, it persists. (And is not a tall building, though yes those buildings next door are a travesty of everything on earth afaict from photos of them.)Yeah. Mixed-Blood theater is historic marker. The tall buildings is actually worse than crack stacks now. Somalians have taken over that area. A lot of the extremist go back to Africa to fight for Al-Shabab. It's a recruiting center for the younger Somalians.
It is an historical marker bc it is an old firehouse, and also bc it is a Mpls theater with nearly 50 years' history.
It's a good theater. Or has been for nearly 50 years. I'd assess it's struggled, aiming to acknowledge its neighborhood and the broad range of potential (relevant or worthy or not, ommv) concerns of that community, within the theater's larger context/purpose.
That thing is a horror show all its own. The story I've heard is that it was a social justice theater founded by a bunch of white gay guys really into black men. Everything they do in terms of theater is about as bad as theater gets.
It was founded not by "a bunch of white gay guys really into black men," but by Jack Reuler, who has conventionally hetero interests, and a daughter, though I suppose in modern-day perspective that makes him gay (plus "degenerate" for modern-day edgies).